Russell Nagelkirk

Russell Nagelkirk


  • September 29, 2018

    The Democrats' FBI sham

    We have reached a time where a political party is willing, for political ends, to uproot core individual protections for the accused.  Laws concerning libel, slander, rules of evidence, rules of procedure, rules of confidentiality, and basi...

  • August 20, 2017

    Why Are There Monuments of Confederate Soldiers?

    Can a man be guilty of a sin he himself seeks to purge from his being?  Can he be a mixed bag, having some good and some evil in his being?  Yes.  We all know it.  We all feel the sting of shame, of regret, when we reflect honestl...

  • January 29, 2015

    Undocumented means unprotected

    The headline in the news was as follows: “Obama's Attorney General Nominee: Illegal Immigrants Have a Right to Work in The United States.” If an illegal immigrant has a right to work in the U.S., then he has a right to come here to...

  • May 28, 2014

    Obama and the Truth

    Smoking gun emails have been unearthed which prove the Obama administration lied about the Benghazi attacks.  This lie was repeated.  It was compounded.  It was uttered at the United Nations General Assembly.   Now the VA scand...

  • February 18, 2012

    Obama and the Negotiator's Tactic

    There is a pattern to how Obama has advanced the project of a command-and-control economy -- i.e., fascism with a veneer of capitalism.  Using a negotiator's tactic, Obama sets up his opposition so that they will be happy with meaningless scraps...

  • July 24, 2010

    Taxation or Totalitarianism

    First came the New Deal, then the Great Society, and now comes President Obama's special brand of interventionalist tactics with redistributive aims. When it suits him, the president wants the power to take from some and give to others. But how do yo...

  • July 13, 2010

    The First Special Interest

    President Barack Obama, and the clutch of conspirators he calls advisors, would do well to recall what the first special interest was. They won't, because they have an agenda: not to see that the laws are faithfully executed, as the executive branch ...